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American Caesar: Douglas MacArthur 1880-1964 |
Author: Manchester, William:
Description: Hutchinson 1979 1979 Publishers original red cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Minor rubbing to top and base of spine. Dustwrapper: unclipped, small closed tear to bottom of front cover, now protected in Brodart. Typography endpapers, no inscriptions. 793pp including index, profusely illustrated with b/w photographs, pages clean and bright in firm binding. This book presents MacArthur in all his glory, complexity and contradiction. Here is MacArthur the military genius capable of masterpieces of strategy and inexplicable lapses (knowing Pearl Harbour had been attacked, he let his Philippine air force be destroyed on the ground nine hours later by the Japanese); a fifty-four year old four-star General who was terrified that his mother would find out that he kept a young Eurasian mistress. His retreat to Australia from Beleaguered Bataan in 1942 to organise the American offensive against Japan brought him the loudest accusations of cowardice and signalled his darkest hour; but the Australians, led by Prime Minister Curtin, hailed him as their saviour. So great became this involvement in Australian politics that he repeatedly returned to the country to talk with politicians long after the threat to the nation has been parried. The narrative is gripping because the General's life was fascinating. It is moving because he was a man of vision. It finally ends in tragedy because his character, though majestic, was tragically flawed.
Book Number: 0005988
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